Drive-in theaters and car-hop restaurants were pre-boomer delights

 

A Saturday night trip to the drive-in movie with a date and a Sunday afternoon ride topped off with a burger and shake delivered to your car by someone on roller skates was what we called a great weekend in the 1950s.  These experiences only exist in the recesses of our minds, but the memories [...]

America’s Exceptionalism is the Key to Our Recovery

We pre-boomers grew up in a time when there was no doubt that this country was the world leader in virtually everything we could think of.  Our generation was born between 1930 and 1945, so we saw results of what a united people are capable of doing.  Rising from the ashes of the Great Depression, [...]

Whatever happened to service?

Pre-boomers remember the time when service played an important role in the selection of the stores in which we shopped the restaurants where we ate and virtually any one with whom we did personal and professional business.  Times have changed and service, as we knew it, is a thing of the past.

 
One of the first [...]

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